Jose Lopez has turned into a late-inning RBI machine the last two days, doubling home Chone Figgins in the seventh to tie it 2-2. We're now in the eighth.

The Mariners had a shot at taking the lead after that, but Ken Griffey Jr. grounded out to -- where else? -- second base. White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen then made a wise move, knowing the Mariners have zero outfield depth today. With Eric Byrnes in the on-deck circle, then had Freddy Garcia intentionally walk Casey Kotchman to put two on and bring the struggling Byrnes up.

Seattle was in no position to pinch-hit for Byrnes. Milton Bradley is out with an injury and Matt Tuiasosopo is playing shortstop because of the injury to Jack Wilson. That means, the M's had to stick with Byrnes, who promptly fouled out to the catcher and unleashed the mother of all f-bombs.

2:29 p.m: Eric Byrnes nearly made a superhuman catch in the fifth inning, only to miss the ball and have it cost his team two runs. The good news is, Byrnes saved a run because Alexei Ramirez would have had a three-run homer had Byrnes not perched himself on the top of the left field fence, raised his glove and deflected the ball.

After it nicked his glove, the ball dropped, hit the top of the wall and bounced back on to the field of play.

So, it was a two-run double instead of a three-run homer, giving Chicago a 2-1 lead.

Like I said, Byrnes has to catch that ball. Yeah, he was balancing atop the wall and it was not an easy play. But he had his glove lined up and the ball was coming straight for it. I'll give you one thing, he's an entertaining guy to watch.

The Mariners have just one hit the first five innings.

1:58 p.m.: So, we've got the perfect games and no-hitters out of the way and the Mariners lead 1-0 heading to the bottom of the fourth inning. The lead came courtesy of a Franklin Gutierrez homer to left center on a 2-2 pitch after Freddy Garcia had retired his first 11 batters in a row.

Doug Fister has still faced the minimum nine guys for now. He gave up a one out single to Mark Teahen in the third, but it was erased on a nice 5-4-3 double play turned on an Alexei Ramirez grounder.

1:41 p.m.: We're heading to the bottom of the third inning already and both pitchers have perfect games going. See? Thought I'd get that silly superstition "jinx" out of the way, so Dave Sims doesn't have to take any heat. If Freddy Garcia and Doug Fister are to be perfect today, they'll do it all on their own without any help from yours truly. And that is the way it always is.

Nine up, nine down for Garcia, who has three strikeouts and two infield popouts to his credit. Ken Griffey Jr. caused a stir by hitting the ball out of the infield, but it wound up a routine fly ball to right center.

Fister has been very effective, with two strikeouts -- one called -- three grounders and a pop-up to-date. Looking pretty good so far.

1:07 p.m.: All eyes are on Doug Fister today. Let's see whether he can continue his stretch of success without a plethora of strikeouts. The ball was flying out of here last night and Fister will have to stay down in the zone if he's to have success.

The lineups

MARINERS

RF Ichiro
2B Chone Figgins
CF Franklin Gutierrez
3B Jose Lopez
DH Ken Griffey Jr.
1B Casey Kotchman
LF Eric Byrnes
C Rob Johnson
SS Matt Tuiasosopo

RHP Doug Fister

WHITE SOX

LF Juan Pierre
2B Gordon Beckham
RF Andruw Jones
1B Paul Konerko
C A.J. Pierzynski
DH Carlos Quentin
CF Alex Rios
3B Mark Teahen
SS Alexei Ramirez

RHP Freddy Garcia